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Monday, 13 December 2010

Let The Music Play!

To me, there are two kinds of Christmas music, and they're both a big part of the season.

The first is the pop music from over the years. I have a 'Best Of' Christmas album, and I always play it while making my mincemeat and mince pies. As soon as John Lennon starts with that very first line 'So this is Christmas...' I'm in the Christmassy mood and ready to get elbow deep in flour and dried fruit while singing along at the top of my voice. My favourites are Fairytale Of New York (the original, not the Ronan Keating version), Chris de Burgh's A Spaceman Came Travelling, and I rather love Baby, It's Cold Outside by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews. It's also a good CD to have on in the background at a Christmas gathering, or to play when The Children get home after the last day of term!

The second is the carols. I join in with the Christmas choir at my church every year - we moved to this area at the beginning of December 7 years ago so I was too late to be part of it then, but I attended the carol service that year and totally loved it! As soon as rehearsals were mentioned the following year I was on that list! We sing some old favourites and some newer pieces; in previous years we've sung God To Adam, Emmanuel, Born In A Stable, This Child, What Child Is This, the Hallelujah Chorus, This Little Babe, So Many Centuries Ago; this year we're doing O Holy Night!, Gaudete, Christmas Alleluias, And The Glory Of The Lord (Handel), Unto Us A Child Is Born, and John Rutter's Star Carol. The latter is a particular favourite of mine because I once sang it as part of my school choir, and I love the harmonies! We also sing the parts and descants to the congregational carols. It's such a wonderful service of praise, and I find that putting my heart and soul into these beautiful songs really reminds me of what Christmas is about.

They may be very different kinds of music, but I need them both to properly feel that Christmas is here :-)

I love your page! I'm hosting a scrapbooking challenge/link up about our favorite music (Christmas or otherwise). I would love if you would stop by @ www.itsacraftylife.blogspot.com and link up this post! Hope to see you there! ;-)

I agree...I love both the traditional and nontraditional Christmas music. Wouldn't be the same without both! My favorite pop song is Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth when sang by Bob Hope and David Bowie. Thanks so much for joining my link up! I can't say how much I appreciate it. My blog is pretty new, and I guess I need to spread the word a little more before I try another scrapbooking link up! Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

...is what I speak. It describes what I actually say (nonsense, mostly) and how I say it (ie my accent, which is a mixture of all sorts - a bit of North of England, a bit of Irish, a bit of South West England, a lot of just me!) The word comes from my name, Mel, and the fact that I'm one-quarter Welsh. But there's not actually any Welsh in my accent. Go figure...